Rosa Brooks examines the Eastern European CIA "black site" prisons, of undisclosed locations, that use stress techniques she defines as torture.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605C.shtml



Torture: It's the new American way
LA Times
by Rosa Brooks

11/05/05

During the Cold War, we thought we knew what distinguished us from our Soviet bloc enemies. We did not have a gulag; we did not imprison and torture our enemies. But the war on terror has distorted our national values. We have used some of the same tactics we once decried. The Soviet Union's legacy of terror lives on, its tactics embraced by some of our leaders. Vice President Dick Cheney continues to insist that the McCain amendment, which prohibits U.S. personnel from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners, should not be applicable to the CIA. Somewhere in Moscow's Novodevichyi cemetery, Khrushchev is probably laughing inside his grave...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp